Newsnight Quotes

#1. I'm always up for music shows such as Jools Holland, but news more than anything, particularly Newsnight. And cookery: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Rick Stein - it's down to him that I cook fish so much - and the great food alchemist Heston Blumenthal.

Charles Hazlewood

#2. They could make profitable use of his ample winnings and see the world. Were he not on tour for most of the year, they could finally enjoy a home life - the simple pleasures of coffee and Daily Telegraphs, clean windows and daffodils, cabernet and Newsnight.

Lionel Shriver

#3. I don't want to watch 'Newsnight.' I just don't understand those politicians who genuinely want to watch it for pleasure.

George Osborne

#4. I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.

Peta Todd

#5. 10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

Alan Coren

#6. All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean."
Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

Laini Taylor

#7. To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

Brendan Behan

#8. Any mechanism that will ensure benefits to consumer, any mechanism that will ensure that we do not waste food grains, any mechanism that helps the poorest of the poor is a welcome step.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#9. It is not that people are evil or greedy. The conditions that socially support the system force us to behave in socially offensive ways.

Jacque Fresco

#10. The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.

Bryan Procter

#11. The most dangerous diminutions of freedom come from those who are convinced of their moral rectitude.

Daniel Hannan

#12. There are quite a few honest songwriters out there writing about relationships and their own personality traits. But for some reason, once they step out of the bedroom, their honesty doesn't seem to come with them.

Billy Bragg

#13. If you try to cure evil with evil
you will add more pain to your fate.

Sophocles

#14. She hurried at his words, beset with fears, For there were sleeping dragons all around ...

John Keats